compulsive dinner guest by eloine

 

Eloine is Bryan Day, the man, legend, an urban myth - for over two decades working with guzzling gazillions of different musicians, outsiders, releasing music under different monikers with different labels including his own Public Eyesore.

Bryan recorded this album just after his tour in Japan, summer of 2024 using his self-made and designed instruments, synths, tapes, objects and last but not least - organ. 

If you compare it to his other album - Moldy Cushions - this one has a bit different approach. He played and improvised on semi-acoustic instruments such as an unbalanced metal sheet which was excited  by an industrial electromagnet. The other one being weighted piano strings which were activated by an ebow.

After that those recordings were played through effects into a mixing console and wrapped up and mastered as the final result which you can hear here.

It's a quite diverse array of nuances set into a neatly composed wholeness. You get a gritty preparations that are still not crossing the boundaries into a more straightforward noise music as in track reactionary survey, followed by more mellow and mysterious smokers pillow. 

All the tracks are between over 8 to over 9 minutes and it makes this material interesting enough and balanced as a musical and listening experience.

Bryan, also being a versatile musician has lots of trademarks that are still elusive enough to make it difficult to classify his style. It's partly due to the amount of different instruments he designed but surely and definitely due to the fact that he has experience in cross-genres where nothing seems as it sounds and you can expect anything and everything. Yet all of this has a clear structure and makes you want to listen to it again to check what hit you. 

Bryan's bio:

Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in San Francisco. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. During his days, he can be found designing, building, and repairing science museum exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

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